Matt Taibbi 2 hr ago I’d be lying if I said I didn’t spend last week wondering how to undo any damage to the #TwitterFiles caused by my interview with MSNBC’s Mehdi Hasan. Short of jumping in a DeLorean and time-flying back to cancel, few ideas presented themselves. […]
Krystal and Saagar discuss Brazil President Lula calling out Biden for encouraging the war in Ukraine, bank executives drooling over Ukraine War profits, Kevin McCarthy begging Wall Street to back him in the fight on the Debt Ceiling, Nikki Haley caught lying about her fundraising numbers, Biden aides […]
TUESDAY, APRIL 18, 2023 The immature conscience is one that bases its judgments partly, or even entirely, on the way other people seem disposed toward its decisions. The good is what is admired or accepted by the people it lives with. The evil is what irritates or upsets […]
April 17, 2023 Hello, Insiders. The trial for Dominion Voting Systems’ $1.6 billion defamation lawsuit against Fox News was scheduled to begin today, but as of last night, the trial has been delayed one day amid reports that the media giant is pursuing settlement talks. Today’s big story […]
Saagar discusses his reaction to the Document Leaker begin arrested and the news media’s focus on uncovering the leaker rather than investigating the stories.
Caitlin Johnstone Apr 13, 2023 Listen to a reading of this article (reading by Tim Foley): The US State Department’s spokesperson Ned Price is being replaced by a man named Matthew Miller. Like Price, Miller has had extensive prior involvement in both the US government and the mass […]
Aloof. Indifferent. Dry as sand. These are terms our podcast critic, Nicholas Quah, uses to describe the news-focused audio shows from the staid 179-year-old magazine The Economist, and he means them all as compliments. “They are incredibly British,” Nick writes about the publication’s expanding suite of podcasts, “and […]
Caitlin Johnstone 11 hr ago Listen to a reading of this article (reading by Tim Foley): Responding to a war caused by NATO expansion by expanding NATO. Fighting Russian authoritarianism by increasing censorship. Fighting Russian propaganda by increasing propaganda. Pursuing peace by rejecting diplomacy. Defending Europe from Russia […]
Two months ago, Rupert Murdoch brought in Emma Tucker of the Sunday Times of London as the new editor-in-chief of The Wall Street Journal. Tucker “had never worked in America before and hardly knew her way around the city, let alone her own newsroom,” New York’s Shawn McCreesh […]
After MSNBC’s Mehdi Hasan pointed out two (perhaps three) errors in the Twitter Files, a brief note: Matt Orfalea and Matt Taibbi 10 min ago “We obviously always correct and update, that’s part of verification.” I had a nasty interview with Mehdi Hasan on the Mehdi Hasan […]
Trump’s Mar-a-Lago speech not “newsworthy,” “costly,” and “full of lies” according to MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow…Kim breaks down the hypocrisy.
Reviewing the last six years at the network that claims now to be concerned with integrity and accuracy: Matt Taibbi 6 hr ago I’m going to be interviewed on MSNBC today by Mehdi Hasan, the author of a book called Win Every Argument. I’m looking forward to it […]
Caitlin Johnstone 8 hr ago Listen to a reading of this article: American liberals are in an uproar over Twitter’s recent labeling of National Public Radio as “US state-affiliated media”, a designation typically reserved for state media from governments the US is trying to topple like Russia’s RT, […]
Trump’s Mar-a-Lago speech not “newsworthy,” “costly,” and “full of lies” according to MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow…Kim breaks down the hypocrisy.
Caitlin Johnstone 5 min ago Listen to a reading of this article (reading by Tim Foley): It’s funny how former Israeli PM Ehud Barak just deleted a tweet admitting that Israel has nuclear weapons at the same time The Washington Post reports that US allies have a “don’t talk […]
Do we really have to say this? Psychiatrists are under NO obligation to report when someone is under care for mental illness UNLESS there is a direct threat against identifiable victim(s). If we make psychiatrists report the suspicion of dangerousness, people who need to go to therapy wouldn’t, […]
Caitlin Johnstone 34 min ago Listen to a reading of this article: This Substack will always be free to read. A fascinating exchange took place at a UN press briefing the other day between China Global Television Network’s Xu Dezhi and the UN’s Deputy Spokesperson for the Secretary-General Farhan […]
Caitlin Johnstone 11 min ago Listen to a reading of this article (reading by Tim Foley): I hate The New York Times. Hate it, hate it, hate it, hate it. With every fiber of my being, from the depths of my immortal soul. The “paper of record” for […]
Emil O. W. Kirkegaard Mar 25 So you’ve seen stuff like this: There’s an endless such number of photos, nearly literally. AI will generate these on the fly for any content you desire. So since a video is just a set of photos in the right order, AI […]
— Jebediah Reed, editor, Intelligencer How artificial intelligence will — and will not — change our lives has suddenly become a constant subject of conversation and nervous speculation. Today, Intelligencer tech columnist John Herrman takes a look at the world of YouTube hustle evangelists (“You deserve to get […]
— Justin Miller, deputy editor, Intelligencer More than 1,000 people have been arrested for the attack on the Capitol, but accountability for those who inspired the January 6 insurrection has been lacking. Maybe that is part of the reason why there seems to be so much riding on […]
Briahna Joy Gray and Robby Soave react to an opinion piece from The Guardian in which the authors criticize Russell Brand.
Caitlin Johnstone 2 hr ago Listen to a reading of this article: Sydney Morning Herald editor Bevan Shields has published an article titled “We are not above criticism but these attacks go too far“, tearfully rending his garments over criticisms his paper’s three-part war-with-China propaganda series “Red Alert” […]
Decentralized Communication – #SolutionsWatch The Corbett Report 13 hr ago SHOW NOTES AND MP3: https://www.corbettreport.com/solutionswatch-communication/ As the internet clampdown begins, people are finally beginning to wake up to the need to find alternative communication platforms. But if the masses are just herded from one centralized platform to another, […]
The Weaponization of Government, World War III, and other news of the week. Michael Shellenberger and Leighton Woodhouse 8 hr ago “So-Called Journalists” Michael Shellenberger @ShellenbergerMD “So-called journalists” @mtaibbi 8:04 PM ∙ Mar 9, 2023 54,097Likes5,332Retweets Well, that was weird. Yesterday we helped break what could be […]
Caitlin Johnstone 11 hr ago Listen to a reading of this article: Australian media are awash with reporting on the war-with-China propaganda series by The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age that I’ve been writing about for the last few days. Which is really quite extraordinary, because it’s […]
March 06, 2023 TODAY IN HISTORY Michelangelo is born 1475 TOP NEWS Jan. 6 Coverage ‘They Are Lying’: Tucker Carlson Reveals New Details From Exclusive Jan. 6 Video Footage SHARE* READ MORE Economy IRS Issues Warning to Taxpayers SHARE* READ MORE NY […]
Technology is playing a key role in the US political system. We’ve opened a pandora’s box with technological politics. Unlike the utopian visions we once had for tech like the internet, the reality was that we let loose the worst of our inhibitions and enshrined a system that […]
Krystal and Saagar discuss the Republican civil war over East Palestine Aid, Corporate media caught running Railroad propaganda, Trump surging in all Republican 2024 polls, Fox stunned as Diner voters back Trump over Desantis, Saagar presses Vivek Ramaswamy on his 2024 run, Insulin company Eli Lily cuts insulin […]
Caitlin Johnstone 14 hr ago Listen to a reading of this article: In a new article titled “European antiwar protests gain strength as NATO’s Ukraine proxy war escalates,” The Grayzone’s Stavroula Pabst and Max Blumenthal document the many large demonstrations that have been occurring in France, the UK, […]
Katzenberg-funded TYT, named after an organization that carried out genocide, comes to the defense of the Empire.
I remember an old segment from Sam Seder discussing a debate/conference he attended with Larry Elder. He said that behind the stage, Larry would basically drop all of his posturings. For so many of the people on the right, this is a performance they put on for money […]
Caitlin Johnstone 9 min ago Listen to a reading of this article: It’s very odd how humans can be manipulated into acting against their own self-interest to the benefit of their rulers in ways that animals would never tolerate, just by exploiting the fact that we experience thoughts […]
Fox viewers will still not care.
How journalists – yes, journalists – want to shut down reporting on child transition. Andrew Sullivan 8 hr ago (Luis Soto/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images) Five years ago when I wrote “We All Live On Campus Now,” I noted how illiberal practices that originated in elite colleges — […]
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Caitlin Johnstone 11 hr ago Listen to a reading of this article: The widespread refusal to accept that the US government bombed the Nord Stream pipelines is based solely on the faith-based belief that the US government would never do something so evil, despite its having done many […]
Jimmy Dore is showing up everywhere nowadays.
Caitlin Johnstone 7 min ago Listen to a reading of this article: In the latest escalation in Australia’s increasingly forceful campaign to manufacture consent for war with China, the Murdoch-owned Sky News Australia has aired a jaw-droppingly propagandistic hour-long special which advocates a dramatic increase in the nation’s military spending. […]
The Corbett Report Feb 12 by James Corbett corbettreport.com February 12, 2023 “Extra! Extra! Read all about it! Establishment media journalists are dropping objectivity!” As a conspiracy realist, you would be right to scoff at a newsboy yelling such an obvious observation as if it were a breaking […]
For a Racket special project, bodies needed Matt Taibbi 21 hr ago Office for Emergency Management. War Production Board, USA 1942 I started working on the #TwitterFiles months ago in the hope of answering a question about whether or not the government was teaming up with private platforms […]
The venerable watchdog publication breaks legacy media ranks with a massive rebuke of Trump-Russia coverage. Interview with the report’s dogged author, Jeff Gerth Matt Taibbi 11 hr ago The Columbia Journalism Review stunned many last Monday by publishing “The Press Versus the President,” a 24,000-word autopsy of press […]
— Catherine Thompson, senior editor, the Cut When the Cut’s Angelina Chapin started following up on the irresistibly juicy saga of ousted GMA3 co-hosts T.J. Holmes and Amy Robach, we aimed to tell the stories of some of the junior staffers who were put on blast in the […]
The Guardian is very keen to pose as the conscience of the nation, but their history is more than a little murky. In the present day, they are being accused of racism by black people working on a project which the newspaper itself launched. https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2008/o… https://order-order.com/2023/01/26/gu…
It’s honestly refreshing to see that Jordan is sticking to his principles here and not adhering to his… donors. We all should unanimously be against these right-wing driven book bans and speech suppression. Same with on the left.
Video playback is not supported on your browser. Please upgrade. The 6th Annual Fake News Awards The Corbett Report 4 hr ago SHOW NOTES AND MP3: https://www.corbettreport.com/fakenews6/ And now, from an undisclosed location deep beneath the Earth’s surface, it’s the 6th Annual Fake News Awards! Shining the spotlight […]
The Twitter Files reveal that one of the most common news sources of the Trump era was a scam, making ordinary American political conversations look like Russian spywork Matt Taibbi 2 hr ago Former FBI counterintelligence agent and “disinformation” expert Clint Watts, the spokesman for Hamilton Ambitious media […]
Nick Brana, Co-Chair of People’s Party and Co-Organizer for Rage Against the War Machine joins us to discuss Biden’s and Europe’s escalation of the Ukrainian war. Join us at the rally on Feb. 19th, 2023 https://RageAgainstWar.com ———- Thank you for watching the fully independent Kim Iversen Show. Get […]
The placeholder name did its job, but a long-awaited title change is finally here Matt Taibbi 57 min ago Long-time subscribers know the story. When I planned a move to Substack years ago, I referred to the site’s name in notes using the old editor/reporter shorthand, TK. Typesetters […]
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